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it is to be sought , and where it i $ to be found , it has never yet been in the power of any inan to explain to the satisfaction of a
reasonable inquirer . " We are happy , Aye confess , in observing , that our author appeals likewise to the Scriptures , and to some of the clearest passages in them . The first of these is 2 Pet . i . 20 .
u No prophecy of the Scripture in of private interpretation . " At best this text could prove no more , than that the church has authority to interpret scriptural
"prophecies : bat , really , it will not warrant even this admission , ( for it is silent as to the interprefer , } and much less Dr . Milner ' s inference .
Eph . iv . 12 . is then produced . € ( r He gave some for the perfecting of the saints / ' &c . This is an important and consolatory assurance . But he must have 4 C the
lynx ' s beam /* who discovers in this verse aa acknowledgement of the claims of the church of Rome : and he must be strangely at a loss for scriptural authority who refers us to it .
We are now directed to 1 John iv . 6 . 4 C He that knoweth God heareth us : he that is not of God , heareth not us ; hereby , kn ^ w we the spirit of truth and the spirit of error . " Such was
tUe beloved disci pie ' s language concerning himself and his fellowapostles , who proved their inspiration by their miracles . By what tjtle jt can be ii $ e ^ l by the Romish , or tiny other church , Dr . 1 YJ . has not thought proper to inform us . Lastly , an appeal is made to
# Hist , Con . Tr . by Fra . Paolo Sarpi . f Chron . Table , at the end of Mosheitn ' s Eccles . Hist
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142 Review . —Dr . Mitner ' s Consecration Sermon
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the fifteenth chapter of the Acts , which contains an account of the proceedings of the council of apostles at Jerusalem ; a council ( so our author calls it ) which con . sisted of men who were undoubte dly inspired ; a council—how unlike in its members , deliberations , resolutions and spirit , to that of Trent , * and of every other ecclesiastical assembly to which the name has been applied I ( Ib . note . )
Surely , Dr . M . loses sight of history , when he says , that " the ancient church has been preserved , in truth and unity , during 1800 years ; -f while ail later communions , by abandoning it , have * split into endless divisions , and have died , or are dying away . " On this topiCj too r he surely loses sight of the reports of pbservation arid experience . ( 31 . )
He advances to lay down that short , easy and safe rule , which he promised to point out to his audience at the beginning of his discourse . Short it certainly is , for it is nothing more than this , cc admit and practise whatever the church of Rome teaches and en . joins . " Easy , likewise , it would seem to be ; for ^ in its application at least , it asks no care , no discrimination . But , whether it be safe for those who can read in
the New Testament such precepts as , search the Scrij ) turesy prove all things ^ holdfast that which is gvod ) m&y not be quite so clear . In one thing we perfectly agree v . 'it h this writer : in following the rule which lie prescribes , we shall not have to study and turn over the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 142, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/38/
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